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I don’t like outliners. It’s not that I see anything wrong with them, they just don’t click with the way my brain works when I’m brainstorming or planning. It’s why I use mind maps. Nonetheless, I

I’ve been trying for years to get a decent Bluetooth “proximity” setup going so that my iPhone can trigger lighting setups as I enter and exit a room. I think I’ve finally nailed it, though I’m sure

I haven’t had much time to write here this week thanks to some day job stress, major additions to Marked, writing for other venues, updating iTextEditors and various other fun. I had a brainstorm

You know those categories the App Stores use to sort applications by their intended use? You can use those in Spotlight on iOS. Did you know you can do that on your Mac, too? I didn’t, and I didn’t

I’ve been testing an app called Trickster for a bit now, and it’s publicly available today (just in time to be included in the impressive Productive Macs bundle). It’s a revamp of Apparent Software’s

I’ve been waiting to write about Found since the last WWDC. I got a preview then, and a few months later got a beta copy. It’s pretty amazing.

If you’ve ever wanted to know more about my current Mac-based setup, have a look at my “Sweet Mac Setup” , part of Shawn Blanc’s series of the same name.

I just want to point out that the current Bundle Hunt bundle is awesome. I own (and love) every app included and have half of the books, icons and themes or I’d buy it myself right now. If you’re

I just discovered this, thus don’t know a lot about it, but is a pretty cool command line utility in OS X. I know it exists in both Lion and Mountain Lion, not sure how long it’s been around before

Links of interest from July 18, 2012 through July 25, 2012:

I’m pleased to report that—with minimal effort on my part—nvALT and Marked are running fine on Mountain Lion. I tested them a few pre-releases back, but got confirmation from a slew of users on

I’ve been using this little trick frequently for a while now. I doubt “normal” people ever need to frequently restart apps, but when I start working on keybindings and other things that require fresh

Mountain Lion moves “web sharing” out of the System Preferences interface (and into Mountain Lion Server), and disables Apache by default. Now that there’s no button to click to turn it on, you have

Via a post on OneThingWell , I discovered a new Ruby library and accompanying CLI called terminal-notifier . It allows you to quickly interface with Mountain Lion’s Notification Center from the

While my uses for it may be unconventional , I’m a fan of Day One for journaling and logging on Mac and iPhone/iPad 1 . I’ve been beta testing new versions for both and am excited to announce they’re

I use the Growl Extra in a lot of my scripts to offer notifications while they run in the background. It works great, and still works with Mountain Lion, but I have a thing for system integration and

I keep my Dock very trim. The only apps that have a permanent home there are apps that I either have to have running all day, or apps that I choose to have running all day. However, I don’t make

Over 250 entries showed up for the Day One giveaway . Thanks to everyone who entered, below are the names of the lucky 10 winners (with links to the original comment to confirm that it is or is not

This tip is not highly technical, but may be of use to you if you use a trackpad on your Mac, be it laptop or Magic Trackpad. It came up while talking to Rabbi Eric Linder about workflows a seemingly

There was a tip on Hawk Wings long ago which showed how to speed up Apple’s Mail.app by vacuuming the SQLite3 index. I hadn’t tried it since Snow Leopard, but I was having some serious issues with

Slicy from Macrabbit. I’ve mentioned it before (more often back when it was Layercake), but it’s worth a more meaningful mention. If you create graphics in Photoshop for web or app UI and you don’t

It’s not the first time there’s been a great offering from ProductiveMacs , but the current bundle is awesome. It’ll set you back a mere $30, and includes multiple apps that cost that much on their

Pixa is an awesome new Mac app for organizing images and graphics. I’m personally using it to index and browse my (rather large) collection of icons and UI elements. It recently became available in

The giveaway robot has picked two winners for the Pixa giveaway! Names are linked to the comments that were selected to avoid any confusion. Emails have already been sent, if your comment is listed

I tested out a journaling app called Memories today, and thought it was worth a mention. If you’re looking for a great-looking journaling app that also offers encryption for your personal thoughts,

This will be a 3-part series celebrating some of my favorite apps in 2012: Mac apps, Mac iOS crossover apps and iOS apps. These are apps that I use regularly. Not all of them are new, and it’s not

This is part of a 3-part series covering some of my favorite apps for 2012. Yesterday I posted about some of my favorite Mac apps this year . This post is dedicated to apps available on both Mac and

As you may know, I store a lot of information in plain text files. Among the things I enjoy about this has always been that I can grab the contents of any file straight to the clipboard — without

Update: It turns out it’s not my custom keybinding that made this work. Apparently it was already there and just happened to be bound to the same key I was experimenting with. You don’t need to do

Fletcher Penney recently released MultiMarkdown Composer 2 on the Mac App Store. It’s a cleaned-up, smoothed-out, feature-packed version of the previous incarnation. I’m loving it.